Fight In The Snows Of Finland With New Bolt Action Box
October 19, 2013 by brennon
The Finnish are getting their very own infantry box thanks to Warlord Games. Now this army of deadly snowbound hunters will be able to take to the field in Bolt Action with an awesome collection...
This set gets you a machine gun team, sniper, a pair of officers, a squad of infantry and then some epic looking ski infantry too! Not a bad collection I would venture.
These soldiers were deadly, courageous and resourceful using the land around them to their advantage in order to put paid to their enemies. It was they who managed to hold back Russian advances and hinder them with cunning attacks and snipers waiting in the bushes.
You will be able to get a hold of these soon enough and the rules for them will be contained within the Armies of Italy and the Axis book.
I have just started playing Bolt Action as the Germans with the Assault on Normandy boxed set and I played an allied game during the week. Me and another German player managed to hold back the Allied assault until we were timed out!
It's a very fun system and I am looking forwards to adding to it over the coming months.
Will you be playing as the Finns?
I just dropped a pile of money into Baker company’s Winter War Kickstarter… And this box has a mix of summer and winter uniforms, which is a bit odd.
But it is still nice to see 28mm Finns back in production… I need somebody to kick my russkies’ asses.
It appears that someone at the Warlord Games doesn’t know when the 2nd WW broke out. “When Finland was attacked by the mighty Soviet Bear prior to the start of the 2nd WW it was…”
The 2nd WW started on 01.09.1939 when the Nazi Germany invaded Poland and on 17.09.1939 the Soviet Russia joined the fray stabbing Poland from behind. The Winter War (USSR attacking Finland) started on 30.11.1939. I don’t get it how many people tend to forget those dates.
Either that or they don’t know the meaning of the word prior 🙂
Nice to see forces other than the usual combatants represented on the tabletop.
To be fair. The minis themselves are very nice and I like them. 🙂
Yeah I like the sniper team a lot
I agree about the mix of winter/summer uniforms.
Also the uniforms are for the late war period, whereas the aircraft reviewed in another article (Fokker CX and the I-15) would have been early war adversaries afaik.